HotLanta and The Big Easy pay tribute to * (in photos)

[CatWoman]

[slor]

1. I love it...

thanks for posting!

[CatWoman]

2. it's getting MAJOR play

on the local news.

Now NewsHour is reporting about it.

[maggrwaggr]

44. awesome

:kick:

[David Zephyr]

3. Thank You, CatWoman!

Wow! Wow! Wow!

Thanks! :hi:

[CatWoman]

4. Hey Baby

:hi:

my favorite:

[Military Brat]

10. "Go Home you Stink"

Keeping it simple so the chimp can understand. That's priceless. I love it!

[David Zephyr]

16. "Go Home, You Stink"

My favorite, too. CW! :hi:

[nostamj]

5. and CNN called this "black protestors" ???

looks like multi-cultural 'love' to me!

THANKS for the additional images. a great day for our side.

BRAVO ATLANTA!

[kentuck]

6. What's with the cops on top of the buses?

Do they automatic weapons?

[TankLV]

19. Wow! Like their "Nazi" uniforms!

Now, tell me again why bunkerboy is NOT like Hitler?!

Trouble is, no one can.

Another dead-on comparison for the files.

Vote for bunkerboy - I'M NOT LIKE HITLER! SO STOP SAYING THAT!

If it wasn't so true, why the hell are they all in a tizzy about it?

Never did another single President have to deny or complain about this crap - even Nixon! He was just our own home grown crook and lier scumbag.

Every day I wake up and think from the night before, that it couldn't get any worse. These bastards have to constantly proove me wrong on that. Damn them all.

[ParanoidPat]

21. Read my sig.....

:evilgrin:

[Rich Hunt]

38. uniforms

Get a load of those jackboots!

[eissa]

7. LOL!

The old lady holding the "lick bush" sign made my day!

[jonnyblitz]

11. LOL

I saw that and immediatley checked to see if anybody posted a comment on it!! that was too funny!!!

[LTR]

33. Damn! You beat me to it!

I love that pic! Might have to use it as a sig pic someday.

[Catfish]

34. Yes,

first time I saw a sign like that was when I went to an abortion rights rally in DC and the sign was meant for Bush I.

By the way, thanks for the pics, CatWoman!

[Terwilliger]

8. Woo Hoooo!!!!!

:bounce: :D :party:

[Iris]

9. Here's the downside. . .

Apparently, Zell Miller is introducing * at his fundraiser tonight and several Georgia Democrats are expected to come out as * supporters.

That was on the news last night. It almost made me lose sleep. (Then I remembered that many Georgia Democrats are mostly Republican, anyway.)

[Cleita]

15. When are you guys going to retire these "Democrats" and get some

real ones in there? They are getting money to get re-elected somewhere. You need to convince those donors to redirect their funds to some real Democratic candidates to save our country.

[brainwashed_youth]

22. how about....

Michael Moore for President? He's a real Democrat

[mrgorth]

29. They're scared to stand up to him

They're worried that he can use his base to unseat them. It's a disgrace.

[Kathy in Cambridge]

12. Thanks Catwoman!

This got a brief mention on my local NPR affiliate. I bet BBC America will carry it on their 11 PM broadcast...

[ewagner]

13. My favorite

is that lady holding the sign that reads:

"War is Peace"
"Freedom is Slavery"
"Ignorance is Security"

(sorry not talented enough to reproduce the pic)

[CatWoman]

41. right click

select properties

copy the "address" url

paste

[Cleita]

14. Great pictures CatWoman.

We need to keep these circulated because the national news broadcast outlets aren't giving them the attention they deserve.

[bobbieinok]

17. buses and blacks make for bad images

1. Montgomery Bus Boycott 1955-1956

2. Freedom Rides 1961

....and the passengers being beaten in Atlanta, Birmingham, Anniston, Jackson, etc., and then arrested by the cops

3. the kids leading the parades of blacks to try to get to the Birmingham court house to REGISTER to and being arrested and carted off to jail in buses - several buses every day

....until Bull Connor and the city's leaders get fed up and bring out the fire hoses and the police dogs and turn them on the kids

[rasputin1952]

18. Thanks for the pictures from the Front Catwoman!...

Glad to see we still have it.

I heard on CNN that it was a "black crowd of protesters", what ever the hell that is, that was creating a ruckus. Looks to me as if we are all together in this fight against the 'boy prince'.

If bush had anything for a spine instead of yellow chalk, he would have gone into the 'protest' scene, and asked some questions. But I expect the little coward ran away, and there is little thought of protesters after Karl tucked him in, and soothed him with a reading of the 'The Hungry Worm'.

O8)

[Art_from_Ark]

20. Who was that guy who was arrested?

What the hell did they arrest him for?

[0007]

30. I think he didn't realize that "Common Curtesy" is a Georiga State Law

just kidding!

[ariellyn]

23. I love that sign by MoPaul..."War is Peace..."

Thanks for sharing the pics.

[pfitz59]

24. I kick for lick!

:evilgrin:

[mbali]

25. So nice to see the press cover something other than Bush photo ops

It's about time the protests got some coverage.

[CatWoman]

27. I woke up around 3 a.m. (fell asleep while watching tv)

and MSNBC News was on -- reporting that Bush was booed and jeered. I thought I was dreaming.... :D

[Avalux]

26. Good stuff

I like grandma with her tiny sign in the last pic! We need to see more of this - every time * steps out in public.

[peekaloo]

28. Thanks for posting these pics!

Lick Bush in 2004....bwahahahahaha.

[Anaxamander]

31. Hell yeah!

Show Bush some of that southern hospitality!

Welcome to Atlanta, you fucking asshole Bush.

[sharkbait2]

32. Where can I buy that poster?

The black and white poster in the last picture at the bottom. Anyone know?

[sharkbait2]

35. bump n/t

[GregW]

36. Looks like a young WRP in photo #4

:evilgrin:

[mproger1]

37. media accounts of protest

as expected local atlanta t.v. news was full of inaccurate reporting.
don't all local t.v. news stations suck?
anyway -
the ajc provided decent coverage... at http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/0104/16bushvisit.html


and the nytimes has a good article at http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/16/national/16BUSH.html

but in the nytimes there are some inaccuracies....

He was shielded from their view by a row of transit-authority buses with police officers in riot gear atop them, according to the pool reporter who accompanied the president into the center.

catwoman's great pic's prove that the officers atop the buses were not wearing riot gear.

anyone who tells you that the situation was "dangerously chaotic" as keith whitney ([e-mail]) a local atlanta newsperson did --is wrong.
the police had complete control at all times , there were uniform apd officers, atlanta swat team members, and atlanta "reddog" officers.
plus the usual secret security goons in suits and officers on roofs.

[Hubert Flottz]

39. CNN'S Fuzzy Math, is at it again?

Looks like to me in some of those photos, that the crowd numbered several more than the two or three hundred protesters that the CNN bean counters counted and reported were there! Any real crowd count?

[donsu]

40. kick

thank you

[prolesunited]

42. The pictures are inspiring

Thanks for posting them.

Were there any DUers there? I haven't been around so I may have missed it.

Does anyone recall the last King Day observance during which Bush said he was looking forward to "hanging" King in the White House upon receiving a portrait of him?

[Jaybird]

43. thanks for the photos....

this is just the begining